TripAdvisor Reviews Crown Hotel Mataram

Travel Blogs from Mataram

... didn't see me give the porters theirs) and the then they packaged me off to the harbour for the boat to the gilis, in an uncomfortably hot car (for gods sake man, its not your car, you're merely the driver, so take the hint of me huffing and puffing and turn up the bloody air con. ) Seems I have mastered the ability to fall asleep in cars, so this journey sped by (excuse the terrible pun), leaving me waiting for a long tail boat to fill with people (surprisingly quick ...

... baby turtles. Naturally, 0.01% of turtles survive from egg to ocean. They gather the eggs here from the sand, to protect them from man stepping on them or animals digging and eating them. Then they hatch them out and look after them until 8 months and big and strong enough to have a better chance of survival out in the big bad ocean. Then it was on to one last stop to snorkel in coral garden. Here we finally saw something that's been ...

... me and nothing would now be able to move this mammoth. I don't know what I had done in a previous life to deserve this kind of torture but it must have been bad. Throughout the journey we stuck together... Literally. His sweat acted as a glue that glued his skin to mine. I had no room as his lard **** took up his seat and 90% of mine. I was sitting on Sarah as much as I could but his flab encroached in my world. His skin first lightly touched mine but as he ...

... We sadly decide to forgo the delights of the beach in order to ensure we get back to our tender on time, so we ask our driver to take us back.

As we journey back we start to see new homes being built and lives being improved by the money coming in from tourism. Our stay here has been all to short and as we leave this beautiful mountainous island at the start of its transformation to becoming a major tourist hotspot we wonder how it will change, and the people with ...

... the company sold tickets when there were no seats. So we calmly speak to a young chap who actually cares and get some money back and a seat on a slow boat instead (not our 1st choice but the next fastboat would be tomorrow and we want to get cracking!). The days travel begins and it's one long day of it until we get to Ubud (L joked it would be midnight before we arrive and turns out she wasn't far off as one public ferry ride, one coach, one slow slow ferry and a minibus later it's ...